When edit document properties, new value is not searchable

[entropicsinkhol]

Alfresco 5.0.a  - Documents arriving in Alfresco's repository have custom properties (mapped from Ephesoft).  Once arriving in Alfresco via CMIS, the values show up correctly in Alfresco's property fields (using Types, not Aspects).  You can search for these properties no problem. 

But if you change the property (for eg. changing a custom FullName type field from 'Betty' to 'Veronica'), the search still picks up the original value (ie. 'Betty' instead of 'Veronica').

There are no errors in the logs.

Any suggestions on where to start looking to fix this problem?  If it's useful I can post my configured files, but I'll wait to see if anyone has an obvious "you have to enable this, dummy" answer.

[mitpatoliya]

You are changing value where? from alfresco interface or Ephesoft. You should check noderef properties stored in alfresco weather those are changed or not. If your new values are avilable in alfresco noderefs then it is the issue of indexes.
So, basically three areas you need to look.
If editing done from ephesoft–> Check for syncing of property value with alfresco
Check for nodeRef properties
If alfresco values are updates–> Check for indexing issue

[entropicsinkhol]

Thanks!  The changes were made in Alfresco (select document then click 'Edit Properties', then save it)

On the Alfresco end, I've already tried re-running the Solr indexing.  SOLR.log is set to 'debug' mode, but I'm not seeing any obvious errors.

Looking into noderefs, but not sure where/how to start to look at the properties?

[mitpatoliya]

Login as admin.
Go to Admin tools
NodeBrowser
Search for nodeRef.
Check list of properties

[entropicsinkhol]

HUGE EDIT (The minute I posted it, I figured out my syntax mistake). 

When I searched using TYPE: "docmgmt:docmgmt"  it brought up a list of the documents.  And all the properties I changed (that couldn't be searched for) were there correct.

So, does this mean indexing is the issue?





IGNORE BELOW (Left in case it's useful to someone else) —————————————–

Well, spent the morning playing with NodeBrowser and reading various wiki 'How-Tos' on using lucene search syntax, etc.  I have no idea what I'm doing.

So, I went to the NodeBrowser page.  I couldn't search for nodeRef.  It was already listed as a something to select under 'search' option.  Couldn't find out how to bring up a list of properties (attached a screenshot search page so you know what I'm looking at).  When you mentioned properties, I was expecting a list of options (like in a file) where I could turn features on/off.  Apparently not? 

So then I assumed that this page could be used to locate search for Types, but I'm obviously doing something wrong as I couldn't even get results from that.  I tried various versions of the syntax listed on the webpages below: 

https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Full_Text_Search_Query_Syntax
https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search#Finding_Nodes_By_Type
http://simchaudhary.blogspot.ca/2012/05/lucene-searching-in-alfresco.html

For example, for the search I typed TYPE:"docmgmt"  (syntax listed was TYPE:"qname")

Also tried searching for:

TYPE:"{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}content"
TYPE:"cm:content"
TYPE:"content"


Below is a small portion of my custom model xml file, so you can see the naming I used:

<code>
<namespaces>
      <namespace uri="work.model" prefix="docmgmt"/>
   </namespaces>
  
   <types>
  
      <!– Definition of new Content Type: Standard Operating Procedure –>
      <type name="docmgmt:docmgmt">
         <title>docmgmt Document Procedure</title>
         <parent>cm:content</parent>
         <properties>
            <property name="docmgmt:invoiceDate">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
<blockcode>

[entropicsinkhol]

So, I can search for the changed fields using docmgmt:[fieldname]:'[valuetosearchfor]' with no problem. 

So this actually appears to be a similar problem that I had with the last version (4.2+).  That one was resolved by changing the namespace name, but that didn't work this time. 

Looking into modifying the search config, which is apparently stored in a jar file in Alfresco 5 –> as per kaynezhang's Reply to #14: https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/content-modeling/search-custom-properties-05...

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